Over these past couple of months as I've thrown out, given away, sold or packed up a lot of stuff in preparation for the big move, I feel I'm continually be squeezed through a narrow gate. I also realise just how much I've treasured so many material things which in the end I can't take with me. This plane is just a sample of the collection which I sold off recently, and put I this photo here as a reminder to that doing God's will can be costly, yet I also know that He blesses us in so many unexpected ways.
One amazing thing is:- that as I was going to meet a guy who buys a lot of planes and other models, is that for some reason on that day he was not at the shop where he normally is. So as I walked back to the train station with my huge bag full of model planes, I was drawn towards a construction site (which is a little out of the way from the train station). As I walked passed the construction site I saw an old friend (who was lost) and she ask me what was doing with the huge bag full of planes. I told her I was selling them because I was moving to Japan as a missionary, she told me that her friend's son was also planning to go Japan as missionary in the future and put me in contact with her friend and her son. It gets even more amazing when once I spoke to them they told me they have a Japanese friend who is a new Christian and he lives just 8 minutes away from where we'll be living... BTW two weeks later I sold the planes to the guy who I was supposed to meet on that day.
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” - Matthew 6:19-21 (King James Version)